Two brothers, Malek and Jai, are entrapped in the gangster world. Malek was imprisoned for years due to being betrayed by his own group’s mastermind. Malek now leads a normal life after being released but is pulled back into the world he left behind after all those years.

The movie that launched Syamsul Yusof’s career as a director, KL Gangster was such a huge box-office success that it spawned countless imitators in Malaysian cinema. With their thrilling mix of martial arts, the bloody street fights reveal just how boundary-pushing Syamsul’s filmmaking can be.